NDK
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Post by NDK on May 3, 2011 13:28:43 GMT -5
I was out scouting a farm I have permission to turkey hunt this week, and of course have to peruse over their rock piles... I circled around this one little brushy area, and there sitting right on top of a rock pile was this hunk of coral like it was waiting there just for me. I'm so excited to find something like this! I'm busy getting ready for the hunt, but will hopefully get (make) time to cut this puppy open sometime this week. side 1 side 2 close up of the polyps Thanks for looking, Nate
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on May 3, 2011 13:34:40 GMT -5
Wow man, that is awesome!
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Post by NDK on May 3, 2011 13:48:13 GMT -5
Thanks Donnie! There's another piece that's about twice this size on another rock pile there. I'll grab that one when I'm out hunting and have my backpack along.
Nate
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Post by NDK on May 3, 2011 15:57:42 GMT -5
My hunting buddy had an appointment, so I had time to cut into this piece. I cut two sides about 90 degrees to each other. There isn't much difference. It looks like a bunch of geodes mashed together in spots, and the quartz or whatever replaced the coral is pretty crumbly. I cut a quick cab from the one end cut too. Nate
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Post by mohs on May 3, 2011 16:06:58 GMT -5
Interesting specimen Nate you knew it was coral right away? Ed
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Post by sitnwrap on May 3, 2011 17:12:18 GMT -5
That's a really cool. The honey comb pattern looks big. Bet a view through a loupe would be really interesting.
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Post by rockrookie on May 3, 2011 19:31:29 GMT -5
nice finds !! have fun Turkey hunting ! --paul
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Post by NDK on May 3, 2011 21:08:16 GMT -5
Yup Ed, I knew right away. Ted (tandl) has posted some, and I've seen other pieces locally from rock piles, but never found one myself.
Lori, the pattern is very sporatic. I don't know anything about how this stuff formed, but I would guess it was a bunch of singular corals that grouped together somehow before they were fossilized. Maybe they grew that way, like a coral apartment lol.
Paul I'm hoping to bag a nice tom tomorrow. The farm we're hunting had 16 birds there tonight, with 3 strutting and a 4th one all fluffed up. I just wish I wasn't 80 acres away. A nice camera with a super zoom lens would have been awesome to have with me!
Thanks everyone, Nate
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Post by playin4funami on May 3, 2011 21:27:13 GMT -5
thats pretty nice, I find alot like it but it is all in greenhorn limestone and just not worth carrying out, it just falls apart after a little handling. and is just hollow inside
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Post by tandl on May 4, 2011 19:27:06 GMT -5
Very cool Nate ! appears to be Rugose corals . They are solitary, but lived in close quarters , in favorable environments . these all got sedimented together . looks like calcite replaced . Get the other one .
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2011 19:57:36 GMT -5
Very cool indeed! There's just nothing like finding your own and then taking it all the way to a finished piece.
Shannon
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Post by spokanetim on May 4, 2011 23:41:20 GMT -5
Rock and turkey hunting season! The Spokane area is getting over ran with birds, I literally almost ran over a huge female driving into downtown Spokane this morning. They are everywhere. I've shot two toms and both had the texture of shoe leather. It's a fun hunt but not worth getting up so early if I'd rather eat a Butter Ball. On positive side our cougar population is also exploding because there's so many turkeys to eat.
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Post by NDK on May 5, 2011 13:57:31 GMT -5
Hey Tim, what are you talking about, there's no cougars out there... Oh wait, that's what the Wisconsin DNR says here...
Thanks Ted for the I.D., and everyone for your nice comments.
Nate
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